Shoe or boot for laborers



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SHOE OR BOOT: FOR LABORERS Filed May 5.. 1925 l N? E NTOR: \SA im Lynn;

Patented May 6, 1930 i I UNITED STATES snonno isnnmsnr, or xUnUmE, FUKUOKA KEN. JAPAN SHOE OR BOOT FOB LABORERS'.

Application filed ma 5, 1928, Serial m.

This invention relates to shoes and has special reference to shoes having a. rubber sole and cloth upper.

The principal object 'of the present invention is to provide a shoe having a cloth upper closed at its front by a medial'seam running down over the instep of the shoe and protected at the bottom with novel means for reinforcing the seam at its lower part and 10 for preventing leakage at the lower end of said seam.

With the above and other objects in view as will be hereinafter apparent, the invention consists in general of certain novel details of i construction and combinations of parts-hereedges by a medial seam 2 which runs down over the instep portion of the shoe from the top thereof. The part 3 terminates, as at 9, 3o rearwardly short ofthe medial heel line while the part 3 extends beyond this line as at 7 around the heel to overlap the rear of the part 3. Hooks Sand loops 10 serve to connect these lapping parts and close the shoe 85 along this opening.

along its bottom edge with a rubber heel'fox- 'paratively narrow strip aroundthe entire Just above the sole the upper is provided lower edge of the upper. Covering the toe 275,526, and in Ja an December 9, 1927.

These two strips and5 cover the seam 2 at the toe and lower instep portions ofthe shoe thus reinforcing the front seam at these parts and effectually preventing the entrance of water through the lower part of this seam, thisbeing the part usuallywet when walking on wet streets and'roads.

There has thus beenprovided a simple and efiicient device of the kind described and for the purpose specified. q i

Having thus described the invention, what is claimed as new, is:

A shoe having a rubber sole and heel and a cloth upper, said cloth upper consisting of: two side portions joined at their'front edges by a medial seam running from the top down over the instep portion of the upper, a rubber foxing extending around the shoe immediately above the sole and heel and covering the lower edge of the upper, and rubber reinforcing strips extending across the lower part of said seam and covering the same above said fo'xing, one of said reinforcing strips being lunate in formand having its lower edge engaging under the upper edge .of the forward part of the foxing and having its rear edge concavely curved, the other of said strips having its lower part formed to fit under the first strip and having its end edges engaging under the upper. edge of said foxing at opposite sides of the shoe immediately behindthe first strip.

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portion of the upper above this front foxing 4 1s a lunate rubber reinforcing strip 5 having its lower edge engaging under the upper edge of thetoe portion of the foxing 4 and its upi 45 per edge concavely curved. Above this strip is a second rubber strip 5 having its lower edge formed .to fit under the strip 5- and its end edges engaging under the upper edge of foxing 4 at opposite sides of the shoe. The

' 50 upper edge of this strip is curved concavely. 

